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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1895)
THE COURIER. MMftftftfrftCp THE PASSING SHOW f X 0(i((Ct(tCCCt(tC(CC(fr(C(0 New York has draxn tbe line, and it has drawn it most severely, upon ' Charles Frobrnan's new French melo drama "The City of Pleasure." The "new play has many and various at tractions, scenery, costumes and all the vast of those glittering substitutes for rssj SMirit'i but it lacks dramatic unity JMl)t tasks decency, And yet, lacking these two things, strange to relate, the play is not popular in New York. Even the famous duel with knives between really I don't suppose she tbitks much about her audience or their feelings. Bheonly does it to be truthful. Ju this generation, when so many of us live altogether upon the false and artificial, when all life is tuned an octave higher than nature, there ire a few souls to whom the truth is necessary and all im portant, for nature evens herself out after all. Elenora Duse is one of these. She suffers as the women of her time have learned to suffer, in secret and in silence. The great art of other women is disclosure. Her's is concealment. She takes her great anguish and lays it in a tomb and rolls a stone before the door, walls it up and hides it away in the earth. And it is of this that she is xEBRA8KA COLLEGE of ORATORY GEO. C 'WirXvIAIVrs, Prix&oincil FACULTY Geo. C Williams 3f 188 Mis now Gillcm L. A. Torkexs Dr. H. M. Garten OPENS Sept 5 IX THE Y. M. C A. BUILDING INSTRUCTION BXOCUTJOS DRAMATIC and LTKIC AKT ORATORY PHYSICAL CULTURE TZSC1VO, ETC. 1P Annie Sutherland and Otis ould not save it. Sail Caine is on his way to this country and will arrive in New York early nert week. For the last three years there has been a sort of tocoJue of "the great" to America. Englishmen cf name and Frenchmen of renown have indulged in American tours, but among them all there has been no stronger or more vigorous writer. What ever may be said of Hall Cain'e ex aggeration, inconsistency and strained situations, the real foice and power of the man remains undisputed. He is an island man. Be is not a man of the world. He exaggerates like all men who are bounded by a narrow horizon. His work all lacks perspective. But the power of imagination is there. I know of no more powerful description than that of those terrible love scenes between Phillip and Kate; in the wild poetry and blasting power they are almost like those stormy recollections of Ottima in the conversation be tween Ottima and Siebald in "Pippa Ella Proctor dying, this stifled pain that is killing her. As I said once before it is hard upon a woman when she acts with her soul, mat wears out so mucn Booner than the senses. Sendfor acatalogue Elenora Duse is no better. About six weens ago a noted .London specialist woman from the first act stated that Signoria Duse must give up Well, I should hope so, tragic roles for this season, that tragedy was killing her. She was simply dying of too much emotion. What, an actress dying of emotion! Why, that is their element, their stand by, their long suit. They thrive and grow robust upon it. But there is more in what the doctor says than one might think. Signoria Duse is dying of her own peculiar kind of emotion, the kind that has made her great and unique in art. Other actresses of the emotional school are demonstrative and impulsive. They suffer and they vent their suffer ing. Ineir methods are simple and I always knew that some dire doom would befall the woman who wrote "Little Lord Fauntleroy." It has fallen. The curse has come upon her, for Frances Hodgson Burnett, the prpacher of sweet domesticity, the apostle of the conjugal and the maternal is negotiating for a divorce from Mr. Frances Hodgson Burnett, a gentleman little heard from. The feud between them is so bitter that Mr. Burnett left home upon hearing of Mrs. Burnett's intended return to America. Poor Mr. Burnett! Perhaps he knows even more than Mrs. Frances about that "One She Knew Best of All." Let us remember that she also wrote "That Lass o' Lowries" and forgive her. The London Daily Telegraph says that "Olga Nethersole is the most emotional Camillc ever played in English." Then heaven deliver us from Miss Nethersole's Camillcl The same paper 6ays gravely that her Camille is a to the last. Under the CO. 1032 P St. Isincoln Neb. This is the p'ace you are going to stop at and order your goods when down town or have our solicitor call on you Why? Because you get better quality of goods for your money. 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M NUMf, 1146 0 Go To kAPITAL, lITY 'transparent: they oour out all their self matic and her nerves and muscles are 9r(frfff(rfCCfC(KCr ... . . . ... -. 11.. ! 1 LI. ! 13 9 . 2 inmciea angui.n, and wnen it is all eqy mvuiuerauie. .mhuidk coum over they are merely tired as children phase her. She is always calm. I are after excitement. Their emotions Ba1' always think of her as she appears axe wonderously Bimple and they go no deeper than those of a child. But Signoria Duse does not allow herself even to suffer openly. In these days that is forbidden to a woman of eood in the last act of the "Huguenots sing ing that magnificent duo. wringing her hands and laboring like a stroke oar to work up a little emotion, and shyly taking the hair pics out of her back 9 9 9 9 LEAT rjOMPAKY, 1014 Street Wliere Yox Can Buy m m m m Choice Sirloin Steals at lOo Verv Good Stealc cut So BrolllnK beeJ cis low cms S X Baoon So per pound "WE DOSffT GHA GEJ PRICES VERY XAY Give us a. trial Sv 9 9 9 9 2t 89 9 9 . - ! T V ------ - Breeding. She must sm.le and smile nair unui u wnggieu aown over ner CCCCCCKCCC and be a martyr. Signoria Duse is as shoulders in order to look grief stricken -well bred on her stage as she would be an woe begone. Ah yes, I believe the ' in her drawing room. The losing of Sod news from Switzerland. Anyone new Hungarian husband whom she was thing tragic in their failure to subdue herself in her part is only the half of wn could sing "Ah Kaoul, my despair," to wed this summer? Has he too dis- the flesh and the devil. The New York her work. Keeping her part within w'n unperturbed calmness will alwajs appeared in a balloon or hurt himself and Chicago papers are making a great herself is her individual and celf enjoy good health. Her constitutions turning hand springs, or disabled him- "miration" as Uncle Remus would say. imposed task, the art that is all her must be perfect and she will certainly own. She is as considerate of other b an octegenerian. people's feelings on the Etage as she would be in her own house. Though By the way, where is Mme. Nordica's . DXXTCIAJP'JS - - any way? Surely or disappearance self in death Nordica's affection nothing hut about Sir Henry's words of lore on the could avert dramatic features of Puritianism. But that is not particularly new. To me the wonderful part of his statement is that Sir Henry Irving was kind enough to he had been reading Fiske. If one were talk to a reporter who met him some to hear of an American actor reading forty miles out at sea. He spoke very Fiske it would be alarming. His man hopefully of an epoch of National ager would warn and caution him and Celebrated Hats K'O'vv on scale- y American drama. He said he had re cently been reading Fiske's work on New England and that ho was struck with the wondeful opportunity for a national drama on the. Puritan epoch. his leading lady would throw herself at her feet with tears and supDlication. If I should hear of Nat Goodwin or John Drew readiug Fieke I should tremble for the future of the American 1187 O flit. J. A. SAIITJH, Sole agt. There is, be says, something intensively stage. I should feel like penning an epi dramatic in what the Puritians lived taph upon the art of Mr. Hoy t and writ and suffered; in the stubborn warfare ing "Nit" upon the tombstone of Eddie they waged against nature, some- Foy. But we are safe. So long as the X '&T i